Man killed, 2 hurt in Richmond freeway shooting

RICHMOND

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A driver died and his two passengers were wounded early Monday when someone in a car pulled alongside them and opened fire on Interstate 580 in Richmond, the latest burst of violence in the city, police said.

The shooting happened about 12:05 a.m. on westbound I-580 near Regatta Boulevard when three people in a Honda came under fire by someone in a white or gray sport utility vehicle, police said.

The driver, Aaron Jackson, 24, of Oakland, was shot, lost control and crashed into the center median. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 27-year-old Fairfield man riding in the car was shot in the arm and leg. He was flown by a California Highway Patrol helicopter to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.

A second passenger, a 26-year-old Manteca (San Joaquin County) man, broke his arm in the crash, police said.

No motive has been established in the slaying.

The shooting brought to six the number of homicides in Richmond over the past week.

On Sunday, 63-year-old Carl O'Donnell was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting in the Iron Triangle neighborhood. The victims were playing cards in a garage on the 700 block of Eighth Avenue when someone shot into the home, police Sgt. Bisa French said.

"We're in a state of emergency right now," the Rev. Andre Shumake, president of the Richmond Improvement Association, said Monday. "The only way this is going to stop is for that next individual who feels like he or she wants to pick up a weapon and take the life of another to let that person live. The message is to live and let live."